Folk Akal-ber. Bhang-jala (Punjab).
Action Diuretic, purgative, expectorant. Used in fevers, and gastric and scrofulous ailments.
The plant contains flavonoids, datiscm and datiscanin. EtOH (50%) extract of seeds and flowers exhibited
marked sedative, highly anti-inflammatory, mild analgesic, antipyretic and diuretic activity in rats.
Datura alba Nees.
Family Solanaceae.
Habitat Throughout India in plains; wastelands, roadsides and gardens.
Ayurvedic Dhattuura (white var.). (Dhattura consists of dried seeds of Datura sp.)
Unani Dhaturaa.
Action See D. Metel Linn.
Datura innoxia Mill.
Synonym D. metel auct. non Linn. Family Solanaceae.
Habitat Western Himalayas and hilly regions of the western parts of Peninsular India, abundantly in Maharashtra.
English Thornapple. Ayurvedic Dhattuura.
Unani Dhaturaa, Joz Maasil.
Action The plant is the source of alkaloid scopolamine which is used as a pre-anaesthetic in surgery and childbirth, in ophthalmology and for the prevention of motion sickness.
Hyoscyamine and hyoscine and meteloidine were found in the leaves, flowers, pericarp and seeds of the plant. The
Datura stramonium Linn. 203
root gave tropane, tropine and pseudotropine.
Datura metel Linn.
Synonym D.fastuosa Linn. Family Solanaceae.
Habitat Throughout India, particularly in waste place.
English Thornapple, Downy Datura.
Ayurvedic Dhattuura, Dhuurta,
Dhastura, Unmatta, Shivapriya,
Harapriya, Hema, Haatta, Dhustuura, Dhustuuraka, Kanaka, Maatula.
Also equated with Raaj-dhatuura.
(white var.)
